Fat-splitting agent and process for splitting fats



Patented Nov. 23, 1926.

UNITED STA TES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTHER SCHRAUTH, 0F WILMERSDORF, NEAR BERLIN, AND HERMANN HAUSA- MANN, OF RODLEBEN, NEAR ROSSLAU, GERMANY.

.FAT-SPLITTING AGENT AND PROCESS FOR BPLITTING FATS.

No Drawing. Application filed December 12, 1924, Serial No. 755,422, and in Germany January 5, 1924.

The organic sulpho acids known as fatsplitting agents comprise generally viscous, tar-like products which can only with difficulty be obtained in a pure state and are very diflicult to dose accurately. Eiforts have therefore been made to employ salts of .these sulphoacids for the splitting ot-fats, oils, waxes and such like. Though in this way a certain amount of progress has been made, even these products still have grave disadvantages, as the presence of inorganic salts during. the splittlng process seriously impairs the capacity for splitting the sulpho acids in question.

It has now been found that by mixing the .viscous sulpho acids with porous materials, such for example as kieselguhr, fullers earth, animal charcoal or the like, pulverulent products are obtained, which exert a far better action than the salts of the sulpho acids the use of which for splitting fats, oils, waxes and such like is known; in fact in certain cases they are able not inconsiderably to surpass even the sulpho acids employed without addition of the said materials. It has also been ascertained that the new fat splitting agents yield products of splitting (fatty acids and glycerine or generally alcohols) which almost completely do not show the dark colouring that occurs with the usual processes.

The porous materials absorb the sulpho acids.

The new process of splitting. fats, oils, waxes consists in adding the new fat s littingagents to a mixture -or emulsion o the fats etc. to be split with water to which an.

acid, preferably an inorganic, as sulphuric acid, may be added. The mixture may be heated.

Salts unable to crystallize and such derivatives of the sulphoacids which by the action of water in the process of splitting fats are transformed into sulphoacids, as the sulphoacid-chlorids may be used. Also derivatives of the sulphoacids containing in the nucleus other substituents as chlorine, the nitrogroup, may be fixed with porous materials. EwampZe.--1000 kilograms of beef tallow are boiled, after the usual purification, w th off and the em invention may also be mg other fatty aromatic su the additionof about kilograms Water and 1.5' kilogram sul huric acid 60 B. with 15 kilograms of a t zit splitting agent produced by mixing one art of Twitchells reagent and 1.5 parts oPkieselguhr. The preparation of the splitting agent isleifected by mixing the components until the liquid is nearly completely absorbed and a pulverulent product is obtained. After only 12 hours a degree of splittin of about 90% is pro duced which can be increased to approximately 100% if the aqueous layer is drawn splitting process, if necessary after new addition of wateryacid and splitting agent... is continued for a few hours longer. The fatty acids obtained in this way arelight colored.

The splitting agent according to the presrepared by mixof splitting fats, oils or waxes or mineral phoacids capable oil sulphoacids with the porous materials.-

One may also mix with the porous substances aromaticsulphoacids, rived from hydrocarbons having several benzene nuclei which are in the nuclei substi tuted by one or more hydrocarbon groups for instance, isopropylnaphthalene sulphonic acid, see the Patent No. 1,576,005. One may also use the salts of the said acids or derivatives' containing besides the sulpho group other grou s as for instance, halogens, nitro groups, car oxylic roups, etc. One may use sulpho acids whic contain hydrocarbon groups derived from secondary alcohols or drocarbon groups, one or more hydro en atoms in which is substituted by ot er groups. The preparation and use of such splitting agents is described in the Patent No. 1,576,005, issued March 9, 1926.

We claim In the process of splitting fats, oils and waxes with organic 'sulphoco'mpounds the step of mixing with such organic sulpho-. compounds, porous materials which absorb the former without reactin chemically especially detherewith yielding a. pulveru ent product In testimony whereof we hereunto aflix our signatures.

Prof. Dr. WALTHER SCHRAUTH. HEM HAUSAMANN. 

